Dr. Buthaina Al Adba is a Senior Attending Physician in Pediatric Rheumatology at Sidra Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar. She also serves as Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship Program.

Dr. Al Adba earned her medical degree from King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia and completed her Pediatric Residency at Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. She obtained Arab Board Certification in Pediatrics in 2011 and completed a Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada in 2015.

Before joining Sidra Medicine in 2017, she worked at Hamad Medical Corporation. Her clinical interests include autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases. She established a multidisciplinary clinic for children with Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome (AGS) and is leading the Patient Passport Program at Sidra Medicine. Dr. Al Adba currently serves as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Pediatric Rheumatology Arab Group (PRAG).